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How am I helpful?

Topics Reception
This unit is part of Animals Working Animals

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Objectives

Early learning goals

  • Listen attentively in a range of situations.
  • Listen to stories, accurately anticipating key events and respond to what is heard with relevant comments, questions or actions.
  • Give attention to what others say and respond appropriately, while engaged in another activity.
  • Talk about how they and others show feelings, talk about own and others’ behaviour, and its consequences, and know that some behaviour is unacceptable.
  • Work as part of a group or class, and understand and follow the rules.
  • Adjust behaviours to different situations.
  • Represent own ideas, thoughts and feelings through design and technology, art, music, dance, role-play and stories.

Lesson Planning

Meet Super Worm! Use role-play to recreate different ways he is helpful and give suggestions about how the children can be helpful in different situations.

Teaching Outcomes
 To identify helpful behaviour, explore a range of different situations where they are able to demonstrate helpful behaviour to each other and recognise the positive feelings associated with being helpful to others.

Children will:

  • Identify and understand different ways they can help adults and one another.
  • Express personal opinions, using because to justify their choice.
  • Use play experiences to share knowledge of helpful behaviours.

Provided Resources

  • We are helpful lyrics
  • A1 paper outline of a child

You Will Need

  • Superworm by J. Donaldson
  • A sheet of A4 paper per child, folded into quarters
  • Drawing and colouring pencils
  • Wormery (see weblink)
  • Range of different sized hula hoops
  • Playdough (see weblink)
  • Circle of paper

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